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I love music, I listen to at least 8 hours of music each day. Even with almost constantly listening to music, I'm finding there is still far too much music for me to get through. I follow a lot of genres, IDM, ambient, hiphop, experimental, jungle, breakcore, gabber, downtempo, etc. And for each of these genres, a huge amount of new releases comes out every week. How do you put up with the sheer mass of decent music out there? Are there any websites for music of these styles that has really critical reviews? I'm so sick of review based sites that don't have the guts to actually numerically rate a work, to give an honest opinion of what they feel about it. Most review sites seem to pander to artists and labels, worried that they'll lose their promotional copies. I also want to find a site that reliably has sound samples of the week's new releases. Especially in the case of IDM and experimental music, it's very difficult to sort through what's out there because mp3s can be hard to come by. Browsing the skimo release list every week, it seems like every release there is some wonderful amazing thing, which we all know is far from true. :) So I'm looking for a critical dissection of weekly releases that I can rely on for those weeks I'm too lazy to spend an entire day in a record store going through everything... Colin. CPI - experimental noise at http://www.mp3.com/cpi/ DXM - abstract ambient at http://www.mp3s.com/dxm1/ ......and of course... http://www.mp3.com/AwkwardBehaviour "Wouldn't you say, Pooh?" / "Say what?" asked Pooh, opening his eyes. / "Music and Living-" / "The same thing," said Pooh. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Man, you need a job. (No offense, just a little friendly ribbing!) But seriously, if you have time to spend all day in record stores, or even listen to 8 hours of music, where do you get the cash to buy all these albums? It's a scam I'd love to get in on, for sure. I've truly, honestly never met anyone to whom music was as important as it is to me-- and I was a classical performance major in college-- but even saying that, I'm only AWAKE for about 4 hours that aren't occupied with something that requires the use of my hearing. Ah, maybe it's none of my business. I'd just love to find something-- short of making chicken scratch in a CD store-- that lets me fully indulge my addiction, while still paying rent. C'mooonnnnn, major label attention! By the way, in my ever-so-humble opinion, spending all day in a record store isn't a matter for laziness, it's a friggin PRIVILEGE that should be indulged whenever possible! Don't let it slip by. Z --- Colin Pascal <cpi23@hotmail.com> wrote:

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> I love music, I listen to at least 8 hours of music each day. Even with > > almost constantly listening to music, I'm finding there is still far too > > much music for me to get through. > I follow a lot of genres, IDM, ambient, hiphop, experimental, jungle, > breakcore, gabber, downtempo, etc. And for each of these genres, a huge > > amount of new releases comes out every week. > How do you put up with the sheer mass of decent music out there? > > Are there any websites for music of these styles that has really > critical > reviews? I'm so sick of review based sites that don't have the guts to > actually numerically rate a work, to give an honest opinion of what they > > feel about it. Most review sites seem to pander to artists and labels, > worried that they'll lose their promotional copies. > > I also want to find a site that reliably has sound samples of the week's > new > releases. Especially in the case of IDM and experimental music, it's > very > difficult to sort through what's out there because mp3s can be hard to > come > by. Browsing the skimo release list every week, it seems like every > release > there is some wonderful amazing thing, which we all know is far from > true. > :) > So I'm looking for a critical dissection of weekly releases that I can > rely > on for those weeks I'm too lazy to spend an entire day in a record store > > going through everything... > > Colin. > > CPI - experimental noise at http://www.mp3.com/cpi/ > DXM - abstract ambient at http://www.mp3s.com/dxm1/ > ......and of course... http://www.mp3.com/AwkwardBehaviour > "Wouldn't you say, Pooh?" / "Say what?" asked Pooh, opening his > eyes. / "Music and Living-" / "The same thing," said Pooh. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >

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